Cable Operator
Requirements
To enhance customer satisfaction and
retain/attract subscribers:
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Increase digital program "choice"
capacity to compete with satellite
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Offer Video on Demand (VOD) services
to stay ahead of satellite
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Offer HDTV
- Network Personal Video Recorder (PVR) services
- Movie caching to hard disk drives in set top boxes
- Data service tiering
- Dedicated digital capacity
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Increase downstream digital data
capacity to support streaming IP services
- Increase upstream digital data capacity to support
Voice over IP (VoIP)
- Offer symmetric services for small business and enterprise
- and more....
The
fundamental challenge to all of these services is the need for increased
digital capacity. The real question is how to maximize digital capacity
for the lowest cost? One of the answers is to use the existing RF spectrum
as efficiently as possible before touching the plant. Broadband Physic's
SDM modulation provides high spectral efficiency as well as low cost.